BACKGROUND Delirium is a common outcome after cardiac surgery. Delirium prediction rules identify patients at risk for delirium who may benefit from targeted prevention strategies, early identification, and treatment of underlying causes. The purpose of the present prospective study was to develop a prediction rule for delirium in a cardiac surgery cohort and to validate it in an independent co...

BACKGROUND The extent and patterns of cognitive change regularly occurring in elderly patients who experience prolonged hospitalisation have not been well examined. OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of cognitive change during and 6 months after hospitalisation and to identify prognostic factors associated with different patterns of changes. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Five med...

AIM The study was conducted to determine the serum levels of certain hormones in post-partum anestrus cows following treatment with controlled internal drug release (CIDR) and Ovsynch protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 30 postpartum anestrus cows were divided into three equal groups after thorough gynecoclinical examination. The Group 1 animals received an intravaginal progesterone de...

background neurosurgical treatment and the severity of head injury (hi) can have remarkable effect on patients’ neuropsychiatric outcomes. objectives this research aimed to study the effect of these factors on cognitive functioning, general health and incidence of mental disorders in patients with a traumatic brain injury (tbi). patients and methods in this descriptive, longitudinal study, 206 ...

clomiphene citrate (cc) has an adverse effect on the quality and quantity of cervical mucus (cm). poor cervical mucus has been reported in 15% of cc-treated women. cc exhibits estrogen agonist and antagonist activities. antiestrogenic activity affecting the endocervical glands is theorized to cause a decrease in cervical mucus quality and quantity. an experimental study was performed to assess ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of the Mini-Mental State Examination combined with the Verbal Fluency Test and Clock Drawing Test for the identification of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHOD These tests were used to evaluate cognitive function in 247 older adults. Subjects were divided into three groups according to their cognitive state: mild cog...

To evaluate the diagnostic importance of event-related potential P300, the correlation between P300 and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was investigated in various brain regions in patients with multiple cerebral infarction (16 cases), chronic alcoholism (11 cases) and Alzheimer's disease (5 cases) and in seven healthy people. Cognitive function was also evaluated by mini-mental state exami...

BACKGROUND As women go through menopause, serum estrogen decreases and ferritin increases. Decreased serum estrogen is well known to cause detrimental effects on bone health; however, data on the associations of serum ferritin with BMD before and after menopause are still lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between serum ferritin levels and BMD in premenopausal a...

The maintenance of glucose homeostasis within the body is crucial for constant and precise performance of energy balance and is sustained by a number of peripheral organs. Estrogens are known to play a role in the maintenance of glucose homeostasis. Aromatase knockout (ArKO) mice are estrogen-deficient and display symptoms of dysregulated glucose metabolism. We aim to investigate the effects of...